Currently, NetBlaster II cards do not have drivers that will operate under the Apple operating system.

Currently, SOHOware does not have Linux driver. We are looking into developing drivers for this OS in the near future. Please keep checking our website for any products upgrade information.

You can share your Internet connection using only wireless adapter cards, but one of your computers will also need a standard Ethernet adapter card to connect to your modem. Plus, the computer that is connected to the modem will also need Internet sharing software, like Internet Sharing Connection (ICS) in Windows 98 Second Edition.

NetBlaster II is what SOHOware's second generation of wireless product made up of adapter cards supporting PCI and PCMCIA, and a wireless Hub.

You get one NetBlaster II network adapter with external antenna, one NetBlaster II CD with driver and Utilities, and one NetBlaster II user manual.

SOHOware NetBlaster II works with Windows operating systems, including Windows 95,98, NT, 2000 & ME, and all IBM compatible computers.

Yes. Although the each wireless device, regardless of brand, must be compliant with the 802.11b standard to connect.

Especially for beginners, a user group is an absolute golden of software, information, and bargain hardware. Several Apple II users groups continue to meet, especially in major cities and on university campi. If a local group listing is 'missing' from your phone book, check for a Mac users group-- a number of Apple II groups have merged with their Mac counterparts.

You can peruse the newsgroup FAQs Q&A Contents page. You can also check out the Apple II Major Sites page (Csa21MAIN3.txt). All Apple II's come with some version of BASIC installed in-ROM on the motherboard. The original Apple II's have Integer BASIC. Starting with the II+ model, all Apple II's have floating-point Applesoft BASIC in ROM. Owners of early Apple II's can load in Applesoft or plug in a card with Applesoft ROMs.

The most popular 8-bit Apple II emus are AppleWin and Apple Oasis, which run under PC Windows, and Apple-PC, which runs under PC DOS and includes support for Mockingboard sound. These programs can turn your PC into an enhanced Apple //e running at least as fast as the real thing using software from virtual disks (disk image files). There are also 8-bit Apple II emus for Macs (one, Catakig, emulates a II, II+, or IIe) and Amiga (Apple 2000).

A memory map for a 128k Apple II along with related soft-switch, etc. information is available as FAQs resource file R032MMAP128.TXT. Transferring Applesoft programs on an Apple II to QBASIC, GW-BASIC, etc. on the PC is mainly a matter of moving a text copy of the program to the PC. (To make a text copy of an Apple II program, you LIST the program to a Text file. See Q&A 017 above.) On the PC, you bring the A2 program text into your BASIC editor.

o- Sellers of original and second-hand software (See ads on the comp.sys.apple2.marketplace newsgroup and sites, like KulaSoft, A2Central.com, and Shareware Solutions II.) Also check the Apple II FAQs Vendor listings: o- Regular posters to this newsgroup will often send diskettes with some utilities and games for the cost of diskettes and mailing. o- Apple II archives maintain large collections of software which you can download via PC and transfer to your Apple II.

A good start is a series of fantasy game articles published, mainly, in the August through November 1999 issues of GS WorldView and since added to from time to. These are now interlinked for easy perusal. The articles cover 1990's through early 2000's interactive fantasy competition releases, Infocom's Lost Treasures I and II, a 'missing Lost Treasure', plus some more recent Zork series releases. Coverage includes brief descriptions plus download links.

A:This depends on what the card is, and what model your Apple II is. Apple IIs traded the 'IRQ' hassles of IBM PCs for more specific functions as to which functions should go in each slot. only available on the Apple ][ and ][+) is pretty much reserved for 'Language Card' 16K RAM upgrades and ROM code for Integer/Applesoft Basic. tends to be used for printers in pre-GS machines, and either a printer or used for Appletalk in GSs, though most software supports printers in any slot.

If the NetBlaster II client is set to be Ad-Hoc mode (connect without NetBlaster II Hub): this is a normal phenomenon if there is no other NetBlaster II Ad-Hoc client which serves as a DHCP server. If you have installed a DHCP server on a NetBlaster II Ad-Hoc client (e.g. SyGate), please check if the DHCP server has been started on that machine.

The NetBlaster II wireless Hub connects up to 128 computers that are enabled with compatible wireless adapter cards. The wireless Hub connects these computers to a wired Ethernet network as a regular hub would. An Internet access account can be shared over the wireless network when the wireless Hub is connected to a router device (like SOHOware BroadGuard).

How: By far, the easiest and quickest way is to access software sites on the net using a PC or Mac. Files can be moved to and from your Apple II via a NULL modem connection with the net computer. If you use a Mac, you may have the option of transferring the files via a ProDOS or HFS diskette or an HFS Zip disk. (For details on hardware, file transfers, downloading, and uploading, see the Telecom-1 and Telecom-2 Q&A.) Where: Today, most users upload software, info files, etc.

Having both The Golden Orchard CD and The TABBS CD, I can assure all Apple II and IIgs users that they both contain a wealth of Apple II/IIgs programs, graphics, music, information and a multitude of fantastic archives of great interest and value to any Apple II and IIgs user. Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange ( ) is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its User Group founding by releasing the following Apple II Related CD-Rom Books: See the Apple II CD-ROM Info resource file R014CDROMIN.

Interesting bit of info: about a year and 1/2 ago, i was touring Sculptured Software in Salt Lake City, UT. I had just finished talking to the Mortal Kombat team and was rounding a corner, passing some offices and i noticed a name on the door, "Peter Ward". I instantly thought, "NO WAY!". There was a guy in the office and i said, "Are you Peter Ward???!!" Him: <slight pause> "Wow. You are the ONLY person i've ever met that knew that.

Try Microwave by Jim Nitchals and Jay Zimmerman. Jim worked on sound drivers with Steve Hales (primarily for the Mac) under the company name Halestorm. The company and its technology was later sold to Thomas Dolby's Headspace.

Send an email describing your site to the Apple II FAQs maintainer at . Include "Apple" in the message title.

Yes. There is a way for some PCs to read Apple II DOS 3.3 and ProDOS 5.25" floppies which are not copy-protected. By "some PCs" I mean that the PC must have two floppy drives (only one has to be a 5.25" drive) and it must be running MS-DOS or Windows 95, 98, or ME. (It won't work with NT, 2000, and XP). You also need a program called "DISK2FDI". (For a link to the program, see Csa21MAIN4.txt.) DISK2FDI reads the Apple floppy and creates a disk image (.do) on the PC.

The original NetBlaster is compliant with 802.11 protocol. NetBlaster II is compliant with 802.11b protocol.

Think of a wireless installation as the same as wired installations. First, install the wireless adapter card in your computer, then, load the CableFREE CD to install the network drivers. A Step by step installation Wizard helps you configure each part of the wireless network, then automatically installs the diagnostic utility program. Connecting the wireless Hub is as simple as connecting a regular hub ? just plug it into an existing wired hub/switch/router device.

Yes, SOHOware's NetBlaster II uses the latest in wireless technology adhering to the 802.11b standard.

Yes. NetBlaster II comes with three security settings; no encryption, 40 bit WEP encryption, and Quick encryption settings. 40 bit WEP setting is the highest level of security available for the NetBlaster II signal. For an intermediate level of security with minimal impact on performance, select the Quick encryption setting.

SOHOware has not seen any ill effects of having other radio frequency (RF) devices installed in the same computer.

I have a such a program at home. It's called QSO Kid. It requires a IIgs, and from what little I've used it, it seems like a really good program. This is more likely to be an issue for ProDOS-8 programs. The main problem under ProDOS-8 is with programs that insist on referring to devices by unit number (or slot and drive). Network volumes do not have a unit number. Another issue is with filenames.

For the 128k Enhanced //e and //c series, the ones which come to mind are GEOS, Quark's Catalyst, and MouseDesk (aka Apple II Desktop). GEOS was probably the most popular of the three although it never reached the popularity it gained on the C64 platform. The downside with GEOS is that it isn't ProDOS compatible. So, you are stuck with only using the GEOS compatible programs (GeoPublish, GeoCalc, GeoWrite,....) Catalyst and MouseDesk are both very similar.

The most versatile and most common hard drive set-up is an internal SCSI interface card and an external SCSI drive. Hard drives, cd-rom drives, removable media (SyQuest, Iomega), flopticals, and scanners all can be added to the SCSI chain. Insert the card in a slot, connect a cable or two, and change a slot setting. The preferred SCSI card is the RamFAST Rev. D SCSI card. The next best card is the Apple Hi-Speed SCSI card.